How to Play.

📲 Install on your phone

Pattaya Bar Sim works on your phone just like a real app, fullscreen, with an icon on your home screen and push alerts when a girlfriend you've bookmarked clocks in. It's free, takes 30 seconds, and there's no App Store download.

📱 On iPhone

1. Go to pattayabarsimulator.com in your phone's browser. If you're already there reading this, skip to step 2.
2. Tap the Share button, the square with an arrow pointing up. In Safari it's at the bottom; in Chrome it's the same icon at the top right.
3. Tap “Add to Home Screen”. Scroll past the first row of app icons. If you don't see it, tap “More” at the bottom of the list to expand all options, it's hiding in there.
4. Tap “Add” in the top-right. The Pattaya Bar Sim icon now lives on your home screen.
5. Open it from your home screen. The app opens fullscreen, no browser bar.
6. Tap “Turn on” when the red banner asks “Turn on alerts?”, then tap Allow when iOS asks. You'll get pinged when a girlfriend you've saved clocks in, the only notification the game sends to your phone.

🤖 On Android (Chrome)

1. Go to pattayabarsimulator.com in Chrome. If you're already there reading this, skip to step 2. (Chrome may pop up its own “Install app?” banner, if you see it, tap Install and skip to step 5.)
2. Tap the menu button, the three dots (⋮) at the top right of Chrome.
3. Tap “Install app” or “Add to Home screen”. Wording varies by browser; both do the same thing.
4. Tap “Install”. The icon appears on your home screen and in your app drawer.
5. Open it from your home screen. The app opens fullscreen.
6. Tap “Turn on” when the red banner asks “Turn on alerts?”, then tap Allow when Chrome asks. Girlfriend presence pings are now on.

Why bother installing?

• One-tap launch, no typing the URL or hunting through bookmarks.
• Girlfriend alerts, get pinged when a lady you've bookmarked as a girlfriend clocks in for her shift. The only push notification the game sends, everything else (matchups, tricks, captains) lives in the Inbox.
• Looks like a real app, fullscreen, no browser bar, your icon on the home screen.
• Tiny, about 1 MB. No App Store. No updates to install, it always loads the latest version.

Common questions

Will this drain my battery or use lots of data?
No. It only loads when you open it, just like visiting a website. Push alerts use almost no data.

Can the app see my photos, contacts, or anything on my phone?
No. It runs in the same safety sandbox as a normal website, zero access to your photos, contacts, files, or anything else. The only thing it can do is send notifications, and only because you allowed it.

How do I remove it?
Long-press the icon on your home screen and tap Remove App (iPhone) or Uninstall (Android). Same as any other app. Your account is safe, you can always reinstall.

I tapped Allow but I'm not getting any notifications.
First, make sure you opened the app from the icon on your home screen, not from a Safari/Chrome tab. Then check your phone's notification settings: Settings → Notifications → Pattaya Bar Sim. If still stuck, message us in Discord.

Why isn't this in the App Store?
Apple's App Store doesn't allow our kind of theme. Web apps installed straight from Safari are the official Apple-approved alternative, they work the same, with no review and no 30% Apple tax.

📱 Mobile vs Desktop

The sim runs two parallel UIs on the same backend. Viewport width under 720px or any touch-primary device, phones, tablets in any orientation, gets the mobile UI. Everything else gets the desktop UI. The underlying game state is identical, so you can switch devices mid-day and nothing is lost.

Everything shared

All game mechanics are identical on both platforms: drinks, wages, daily roll-over, loyalty, fatigue, streaks, matchups, chips & boosters, sabotage, dirty tricks, prestige, bar group synergy, bar marketplace, matchups and leaderboards. If you hire a lady on mobile she's on your roster on desktop too, same database, same rules.

Desktop-only features

• Drag-and-drop organize tab in Bar Groups, move ladies between bars by dragging. On mobile you use the Transfer action on the staff card sheet.
• Full 3D World canvas, Three.js walking-street, multiplayer, bike races, venue props. Mobile shows a teaser + "Enter the soi" button; performance on phones is a coin-flip.
• Side-by-side staff comparison, the roster perf-table with 30-day heatmap and day-of-week pattern columns. Mobile has a dedicated Compare mode on Scouting (tap the + on up to 4 cards) for the same use case.
• Multi-theme picker (Legacy / Dark / Light / Chang), mobile has a simpler Light + Dark toggle only. Your desktop theme and mobile theme are independent; you can run desktop Chang and mobile Dark.

Mobile-only features

• Bottom tab-bar navigation, Home / Staff / Finance / Compete / More. Desktop uses the sidebar.
• Swipe-to-reveal on staff cards, swipe left on a lady/cashier to surface Replace / Bench / Release / Train. Or tap the … menu.
• Bottom-sheet filters on Scouting, one Filters button consolidates Venue / Roster / Presence / Sort into a single sheet with a live result counter.
• PWA install + push notifications, girlfriend-watchlist pushes only fire to installed PWAs. See Girlfriends.
• Hero cards with gradients, Home bankroll, VS card, tonight's drop countdown, prestige reset. Desktop shows the same data in text form.

Same feature, different layout

• Staff, mobile: swipeable card list grouped by Cashiers / Ladies / Freelancers / Bench. Desktop: one big performance table with sortable columns.
• Scouting, mobile: sticky search + filters bottom sheet + Compare mode. Desktop: inline filter pills + perf heatmap per row + compare column.
• Girlfriends, mobile: search by name/venue, scoped per-bar, save/remove toggle inline. Desktop: grid with pagination.
• Finance, mobile: sub-tabs for Earnings / Upgrades / Bank, each its own page. Desktop: single scrollable page with everything.
• Compete, mobile: VS hero card, matchup strip, leaderboard tiles. Desktop: multi-column matchup board with deeper stats.
• Bar Groups, mobile: collapsible per-bar sections with sort chips. Desktop: full tabs (My Ladies / Scouting / Stats / Settings) plus drag-and-drop organize.

Switching between them

Detection is automatic: viewport ≤ 720px or a touch-primary device gets mobile; everything else gets desktop. On an iPad in landscape you'll stay on mobile even above 720px because the device is touch-primary. Desktop users shrinking their browser window below 720px will switch to the mobile UI, some features (drag-drop organize, admin impersonation) won't be reachable, so keep the window wide if you need those.

Internally this uses CSS (max-width: 720px), (pointer: coarse), see dashboard/static/mobile.css.

💬 Community & Discord

The game lives on top of a real-world community of 11,000 Pattaya Mongers. We develop the sim in public, in a dedicated channel, and most of the league's scheming happens on Discord rather than in-app.

Where to find us

• Invite link: discord.gg/pattayamongers, also available as the blurple Discord icon in the sidebar footer of every page.
• #🎮 bar-simulator, the game's home channel. Feature requests, weird bugs, strategy debates, and real-time match banter. The dev team posts here directly.
• The home page carries a one-time dismissible invite card for new players. Click × to tuck it away; the sidebar icon always gets you back.

Why it's worth joining

• Patch notes in real time. Bug fixes, new features, and rebalances get announced in #bar-simulator the moment they ship.
• Talk to the devs. The build team reads and replies in the channel.
• Find rivals. The matchup leaderboard is a lot more fun when you know the person on the other side.
• Tips trade faster than docs update. Strategy emerges from matches before we can write it down.

🎮 Getting Started

Welcome to Pattaya Bar Simulator, the fantasy sports game where you build and manage a virtual bar powered by real venue data. Your roster wears fun cartoon avatars and the nicknames the bars themselves use, the performance numbers behind them are whatever those venues actually did last night.

Your first session in six steps:

• Create your bar. Pick a name, colour scheme and logo. Creating a bar costs ฿500,000 from your starting balance of ฿1,000,000.
• Draft your ladies. The signup flow auto-drafts 5 starter ladies for you so the doors can open right away; you can keep going and fill the rest manually, or use the ✨ auto-pick helper to skip the grind. The bar opens for business as soon as you have 5+ ladies.
• Choose a captain. Nominate one lady each day from the Dashboard, her drinks count 2× for that day's revenue.
• Visit the 3D world. Walk around your bar, challenge staff to Connect 4, and scope out rivals' venues.
• Check your matchup. See your weekly head-to-head opponent, your live drink total, and plan your chips.
• Play a dirty trick. Once you hit 500 lifetime drinks, the Dirty Tricks page unlocks. Sabotage a rival, just watch your notoriety.

Starting budget

Hiring cashiers

You start with 2 cashier slots. Cashiers run the register and are rated 1-5 stars for consistency:

Cashiers earn ฿500 per shift just for showing up, plus ฿80 per drink they sell (50% of each ฿160 drink). A rostered cashier with zero drinks still costs ฿500 (you pay her for the shift), and her drinks generate the full ฿160 revenue for your bar. You need at least one cashier, without a cashier your bar earns zero revenue.

Week-1 sponsorship

Brand-new bars (Day 0–7) get an automatic sponsor card on the home page. A fictional Pattaya sponsor (rotating brand, all in-world) pays your bar ฿5,000/day for the first 7 days, landing in your balance at the 09:00 Thai earnings roll. Total subsidy: ฿35,000 across the first week. No action required, the kickback is automatic and visible as a 📰 Sponsor line on the Finance page → Earnings each morning.

The card retires from the home page after Day 7 and the line item drops off Earnings the same day. Treat it as a small head-start, not a long-term revenue source.

🎲 Draft

The draft page lets you pick 10 ladies from every real venue. You can build it yourself, or skip everything with one click using the auto-pick helpers below.

⚡ Auto-pick helpers

If you want to skip the selection grind, the Create / Cashier / Draft pages each offer a one-click helper:

• On Create Bar: 🎲 Surprise me populates a fresh Thai-inspired name (Neon Cobra, Mango Sticky Bar, Red Lotus Lounge…).
• On Select Cashier: ✨ Pick best for me hires the best affordable cashier and jumps to Draft.
• On Draft: ✨ Auto-pick my top N fills the remaining slots using Expected Tonight.

Expected Tonight score

The draft page default sort is Likely tonight ↓, a composite score that answers “how likely is she to bring in drinks tonight?”. It blends:

• +20 if she's clocked into the POS right now (her real venue)
• +2 per night worked in the last 7 business nights (max +14)
• +0.5 per day worked in the last 30 days (max +15)
• × 0.4 if her venue is closed tonight (demote, don't eliminate)

Business day here rolls at 09:00 Thai time, so at 10am the score uses last night's attendance; from 6pm onward it starts picking up tonight's live clock-ins. The draft UI shows three badges per card:

• 🟢 Working now, in the POS today
• 🔥 N/7, nights worked in the last 7
• 🚫 Venue closed, her bar's shut tonight, score demoted

Alternate sorts Consistency ↓, Cost ↑, and Cost ↓ are available if you want to ignore live presence and pick purely on history or budget.

Onboarding inbox + checklist

When you create a bar, four welcome messages drop into your Inbox (welcome, pick captain, meet opponent, claim freelancer). Overview shows a 3-step checklist until you've done them. Day 3+ you get a Dirty Tricks intro; day 7+ you get a Chips reminder. All auto-archive when you complete the action, no manual dismiss needed for most.

🎰 Three-name roll on Create Bar

Tap 🎲 Surprise me on the Create Bar page and it rolls three names instead of one. Pick the one you want; the other two go to the Pattaya Turtle Hall of Fame ballot for the wider community to vote on. Hit Re-roll if none of the three feel right. The whole loop usually takes longer to read than it does to land on a name you like.

🪑 Bar Owner School · The Table of Knowledge

The first thing you see after you create your bar is a wonky corner table in a dim Pattaya side-soi bar. Four old expat regulars are arguing across it. There's an empty chair pulled up at the front. That chair is yours.

The Table of Knowledge is the new-player curriculum: 89 lessons across 4 stages, framed as a column the Pattaya Turtle's beat reporter is writing about whatever the four regulars are arguing about this week. Each lesson nudges you toward one specific game action (pick a captain, book a themed night, file a dirty trick, buy your second bar) and pays a small cash reward into your bar's bank when you complete it. By the time the chair fills in, you've touched every system that matters.

The four stages

Each stage opens once the previous one is graduated. You can peek ahead at any locked stage but can't tick lessons off until it unlocks.

How a lesson works

• One of the four regulars speaks in their own voice (typewriter animation, tap to reveal the rest).
• The Pattaya Turtle reporter's editor's note quietly translates what they actually mean in game terms.
• A single CTA button takes you to the page where you'd do the thing (Pick a captain →, Book a themed night →).
• Completion auto-detects. Most lessons tick themselves off when the game state matches the lesson's predicate, no “mark as done” needed.
• Cash reward + lesson count banked instantly on first complete. Front-loaded payouts taper off as you start earning real revenue.

Need to come back to it later

The Bar Owner School strip lives at the top of every page on the home view (the cream “X / 89 lessons” bar). Tap it any time, or hit the 🪑 chair icon in the header. The Table doesn't go away. It just patiently waits.

The cast

The four regulars are caricatures of a real Pattaya archetype. The comedy is warm. They're full of nonsense and a few of them are right occasionally. The Pattaya Turtle reporter is the conduit between their bar-stool wisdom and the actual game mechanics.

Barry · The Money Man

English · mid-fifties · cabaret-DJ retiree

“Look, I've done the maths. Cost. Per. Drink. That's the only number that matters.”

Beer belly so big it's eaten his neck, faded yellow Chang singlet, DJ headphones permanently slung around his neck (hasn't spun in twelve years). Quotes percentages, claims to predict takings to the nearest ฿20. Genuinely good at the numbers. Genuinely bad at people.

Right about: the maths. Wrong about: anything cultural. Specialties: Revenue Breakdown, Captain pick maths, Bar Stool ROI, Wage Strike, Buy a Round.

Terrence · The Bangkok Veteran

English · late sixties · ex-Sukhumvit club owner

“Now, back in Sukhumvit in '94 (and I'll grant you, it was a different city) the principle still applies.”

Tall, gaunt, the only pale one at the table. Sunken cheeks, slicked grey hair, unbuttoned cheap silk shirt, cigarette permanently hanging off two long fingers. Ran a string of Bangkok nightclubs in the 90s. Each one closed, mysteriously, around the time he sold his share. Source of his money is the great unanswered question of the Table.

Right about: the structural stuff. Wrong about: modern technology. Specialties: Roster scouting, Themed Nights, Bar Marketplace, Notoriety.

Dave · The Mystic Lunatic

American · late sixties · biker, in Pattaya 30 years

“Listen, kid. THIRTY YEARS. I've seen things. I've seen things that would freeze your blood.”

Loud American with biker-aesthetic-aged-poorly. Black bandana, full grey beard, sleeve tattoos of snakes and skulls he can't remember the meaning of, gold rings on every finger, multiple amulets. Genuinely believes in ghosts. Reads every losing streak as a curse, every winning streak as a blessing he's earned.

Right about: momentum and when to chase it. Wrong about: cause and effect. Specialties: Streaks, Dirty Tricks, Notoriety/CCTV, Mayor election, Captain instinct.

Gregory · The New Bloke

Australian · early sixties · ex-FIFO miner, fresh retiree

“Yeah nah look mate, I reckon...”

The freshest face at the Table. Sun-burnt nose, sun-faded green-and-gold rugby singlet, Akubra on the back of his chair, beer in hand at all times. Twenty-five years FIFO in the WA iron mines, retired six months ago on a heroic super pension. Has been in every bar in town as a customer. Listens more than he talks.

Right about: customer's-eye view of every venue. Wrong about: Pattaya prices in his head are still 2018 numbers. Specialties: Venue Synergies, Bar Intro Night, Loyalty & Training, Group Synergy.

The reporter

The Pattaya Turtle's beat reporter is the framing voice: a dry, slightly weary journalist who's been on this beat too long. They've learned to nod along at the Table and write the truth down at the bar. They never speak in dialogue. Their voice appears only in the Pattaya Turtle headlines at the top of each lesson card, in italic editor's notes correcting whoever's wrong on a fact (“Editor's note: Barry is wrong about the cap. Bar Stool max is 5, or 10 with Double Unit.”), and in the one paragraph of framing copy between the quote and the CTA.

✨ What's New

A digest of the most impactful recent changes. Click any bullet to jump to the section with more detail.

• 📡 Channels (Marketing skill tree): the Boosters page now splits into Events and Marketing top-level tabs. Marketing is a long-game skill tree built around five real Pattaya media characters (Cruise, Brendan, Cuckoo, Kickback Mack, Vic & Barty). Spend points to wire up to a Channel, buy its products, and pull a small daily drink-earnings line. Underdog ladder boosts newer and smaller bars; multi-bar accounts scale down. Read more →
• 📱 The Pulse: voiceover-led "Meet the Cast" intro for Channels. Plays automatically the first time you open Marketing; replay card stays on Boosters forever after. Same ToK-style two-column flow as Bar Owner School. Read more →
• 📱 Bill Scan PromptPay numbers refreshed: every venue's QR phone is now a 9-bit binary string (0066 0000 00001 etc.) so a misscan can't accidentally pay a real Thai mobile. All 13 venues remain wired up, scan still credits 10× the bill amount. Read more →
• 😂 Funniest Names leaderboard tab: every bar name in the league rated 0–100 for humour by the Pattaya Turtle's resident comic-AI, with a one-line rationale. Refreshed daily. Read more →
• 🏆 Compressed post-season: 2-day semis and 1-day final replace the old week-long playoff rounds, so a 2-week regular season wraps in roughly 17 days end-to-end. Read more →
• 📢 Group News (formerly Chat): the bar-group chat tab is now Group News (URL ?tab=memos), posts signed in the chain-owner's voice instead of per individual bar. Read more →
• 🆕 "Just started today" on Returners: a new top-of-page section catches brand-new POS hires (a lady's first ever shift) within ten minutes of her appearing upstream. Pure first-mover territory. Read more →
• 📍 Rostered badge on hire pickers: staff already placed at one of your bars now appear in the hire / freelancer / cashier picker with a 📍 ROSTERED label instead of being hidden. Not-rostered candidates sort first. Cert-filter pills also default to Confirmed + Predicted at every hour. Read more →
• 🎓 Training filter chip: new chip on the roster filter row narrows the list to staff currently in Week Off / Train in House / Bar Intro Night. Greys out when nobody's training. Read more →
• ⚡ Optimize Roster expanded: portfolio Optimize now redistributes present freelancers across your picked bars instead of leaving them stuck. New Only use currently working toggle in Pick & Fill, plus tick-order priority badges on the bar columns. Read more →
• 💼 Marketplace v2: buyer inherits the seller's ladies and cashiers (no refund on inherited staff, duplicates de-duped). Marketplace-bought bars start at ฿0, no starter float. Sole-bar listings now allowed. Buy/list errors surface inline instead of silent redirects. Read more →
• 🪑 Bar Owner School · The Table of Knowledge: the new-player curriculum is four old expat regulars (Barry, Terrence, Dave, Gregory) arguing across a corner table while the Pattaya Turtle reporter writes it down. 89 lessons across 4 stages, each paying a small cash reward when you complete it. Read more →
• 🐢 The Pattaya Turtle: the front page is now entirely reader-written. Submit a take (headline + article body) on /turtle, vote up the ones you like, the top-voted letter today becomes the lead story. Read more →
• 🏝️ Real Venues: default tab on /world. League-wide form-and-trend table for all 13 real Pattaya venues, plus a full venue profile page at /venues/<slug>. All bucketised, no raw drink numbers ever. Read more →
• 👑✨ Captain MVP: weekly community vote for the lady carrying her captains. Winner gets a permanent badge on her scouting profile and the last-captain bar gets a +฿20,000 bonus. Read more →
• 🏆 Walk of Fame: league-wide hall for ladies with 5+ matchup wins as captain across her entire career. Pure status, public, links from her venue. Read more →
• 🦙 Rideable Moo Deng: ฿500k transport upgrade (chunky pink pygmy hippo). Joins the Soi Scrambler and Sukhumvit Superbike under a Transport picker. Read more →
• 🗳 Mayor · policies + endorsements: the post-election mayor picks one of seven policies that runs league-wide for 14 days. Day-1 players can endorse and split a 5% / ฿250k kickback pool if their pick finishes top-3. Read more →
• 🍻 Last Call minigame + 🍺 mid-evening events: 30-second whack-a-mole launched from the 🎮 games picker any time, plus choose-your-own-adventure cards between 19:00 and 23:00 Thai. Both bake into the same +/- 15% nightly cap on tomorrow's drink earnings. Last Call → · Evening events →
• ✨ Synergy retuned: Trio +3% / Squad +6% / Full House +10%. Themed Night stack cap halved to +40%. Read more →

🧭 Sidebar & Navigation

The sidebar has been streamlined. Several previously separate entries are now sub-tabs within their parent section, so the top-level list stays short and the related screens are one click away once you're in the right place. Help and Logout are compact icons in the footer.

• 🏠 Home: daily clock, Tonight's Captain card, Three Quick Wins, the Bar Owner School strip at the top of the page. School →
• 💃 Staff: sub-tabs: My Ladies, Scouting, Girlfriends, 👑 Captain MVP, 🏆 Walk of Fame. During Mayor of Soi Sabotage seasons a 🗳 Mayor's Cabinet sub-tab also appears for picking your campaign roles.
• 💰 Finance: sub-tabs: Earnings, Upgrades, Bank.
• ⚔️ Compete: sub-tabs: Compete, Leaderboard, Scout Meta, Season, Matchup, Dirty Tricks, Rivalries. A Season ↔ Election toggle swaps the panel into the campaign HQ when the Mayor election is live.
• 🎉 Boosters: top-level 🍻 Events tab holds Tonight's Stack, Chips, Active, Calendar, and Buy a Round. Top-level 📡 Marketing tab opens the Channels skill tree. Channels →
• 📬 Inbox: To-do, FYI, Archive. The bell badge counts open to-dos only. Details →
• 📰 News: sub-tabs: 💬 Feed (player posts, replies, beef-of-the-day) and 🐢 The Pattaya Turtle (the in-world satirical newspaper plus Soi Voice Tribune polls).
• 🏅 Achievements: 69 unlocks across Milestones / Earnings / Roster / Combat / Social / Seasonal, with a Gamer Score in ฿.
• 🏘️ Bar Group: shown when you own 2+ bars. My Ladies, Scouting, Stats, Settings, Boosters, Organize.
• 🌍 World: sub-tabs: 🏝️ Real Venues (form + trend across every Pattaya venue, default tab) and 🌍 Soi Sabotage (the 3D arch, multiplayer races, pool, dice, bells).

The top-right header shows the 🪑 Bar Owner School progress chip (e.g. “5/75”) which opens the Table from anywhere, a scan icon, a search icon, a camera, the notification bell and (for admins) an ⚙️ admin cog. Bell clicks deep-link straight to the source (feed post, trick, bar page). Logging back in lands you on the last bar you were managing, not whichever bar happens to have the lowest id.

📬 Inbox & Morning Brief

The Inbox is your daily command centre. At 9am Thai (when earnings roll up) the Morning Brief generator fires and fills it with everything that wants a decision from you today. The goal is simple: open your phone, open the inbox, five minutes later you know what to do.

Three tabs

• To-do, actionable items. The red badge on the sidebar counts only open to-dos; dismissing or actioning drops the count.
• FYI, informational: yesterday's report, loyalty milestones, streaks, tips, market activity. Auto-clears when you open the tab.
• Archive, every item you've handled. Search back through the week.

Expandable cards

Every row collapses to title + one-line message. Click to expand and reveal:

• A 1–3 sentence explainer of why this matters.
• Supporting stats (drinks, revenue, delta, runway, weeks, etc.) in a grid.
• Tonal pills (green = good, red = bad, gold = noteworthy).
• A primary CTA button that deep-links to the page where you act.

Items sort by priority, urgent-red items float to the top, ambient-grey tips settle at the bottom. Same-priority items tie-break by recency.

What fires every morning

Fifteen generator types cover the bases. Each de-dupes by business date so re-running the scheduler never spams.

Where it surfaces

• /home, the "Morning brief" card shows the top 3 open to-dos inline with quick-jump links.
• Sidebar bell / badge, unread to-do count.
• /inbox, the full experience with expandable cards and the three tabs.

Find it: Sidebar → 📬 Inbox. Also deep-linked from the sidebar bell and the home-page Morning Brief card.

✅ Today Action List

The Home page surfaces a uniform grid of cards for everything that wants your attention today, captain pick, chip expiry, freelancer claims, unused trick slots, themed-night bookings, and so on. Unfinished items carry a red dot; each card has a small ✓ button to mark it done.

• Completion state persists in localStorage so reloads keep your progress.
• The home-sidebar badge decrements as you tick items off.
• Items re-appear the next day if they're still relevant (e.g. you didn't pick a captain).
• The panel is collapsible, click the Today header to hide it if you want a cleaner home page. State persists per bar in localStorage.

👑 Bar Groups

When you own 2+ bars, they're automatically grouped together into a Bar Group. The Bar Group page gives you a centralised view of your entire empire across 9 tabs: My Ladies · Organize · Scouting · Dirty Tricks · Picks (captains) · Girlfriends · Stats · Marketplace · Settings. Every sub-page shares the same tab strip so navigation is consistent. Member-activity indicators and owner-only lock icons are surfaced throughout. You can also drag-and-drop ladies between bars on the Organize tab.

My Ladies Tab

See all your staff across all bars in one view, ladies, cashiers, freelancers, and benched staff grouped by bar. Each staff member shows their performance badge, 7-day heatmap, and streak info.

• Sort controls, Sort all staff By Bar (default), By Name (A-Z flat list), or By Performance (High to Low)
• Transfer, Move any lady or cashier between your bars with one click. Active staff are auto-benched at the destination bar
• Bench / Unbench / Release, Full roster management from the group view without switching bars

Scouting Tab

The full scouting page is available directly under your Bar Group. Use the "Hiring for" dropdown to select which bar you're scouting for, the balance and roster counts update accordingly.

• All the same filters, search, and analytics as the standalone Scouting page
• When hiring via group scouting, you can fund hires from the Group Bank instead of the individual bar's balance

Stats Tab

A dedicated analytics dashboard for your entire empire with Yesterday / Last 7 Days / All Time breakdowns per bar, including sparkline charts.

Settings Tab

• Group Bank, a shared treasury. Deposit from any bar, withdraw to any bar, fund hires on the Scouting tab. Earns +0.1% interest per day on the balance.
• Bulk deposit composer (mobile + desktop), draft a deposit across multiple bars in one form (e.g. "deposit 25% of every bar's balance") and submit them as a single batched transaction.
• 30-day deposits / withdrawals sparkline, aggregates flows across every member of the group so you can eyeball who's funding the pot vs draining it without opening each bar's Bank page. Hidden when the group has no recent movement.
• Group Matchups, your group is matched against other groups for weekly drink battles (combined totals across all your bars).
• Group Standings, season leaderboard for group-vs-group competition. Optionally toggle daily standings on the Profile page (per bar) to also receive yesterday's standings every morning, default OFF, the Monday weekly recap is always on.
• Edit Group, rename, pick a logo.

Boosters Tab (bulk actions across the group)

• Bulk Buy-a-Round, fire Buy a Round across every selected bar in one click.
• Themed-night bulk booking matrix, book the same themed night on multiple bars in one form. Useful for syncing a Bar Crawl across the whole group.
• Bulk chip activation, fire the same chip on every selected bar.
• Birthday Party rule-based bulk, auto-pick a celebrant on every bar by rule (e.g. longest-tenured girl) instead of clicking through each one.

Group Synergy

Multi-bar groups earn a group synergy bonus on every bar's drink sales, shown at the top of the group page.

• +2% per extra bar in the group: 2 bars = +2%, 3 bars = +4%, 4 bars = +6%, 5 bars = +8%
• Capped at +10%, reached at 6+ bars in the group
• Computed off base drink sales (drinks × ฿160), not gross. Stacks alongside team synergy and themed nights in the breakdown.

Multiple Bars

Expanding to a second bar costs ฿700,000 from your active bar's balance, ฿500,000 is the purchase cost and ฿200,000 becomes the new bar's starting balance for hiring staff. Each bar has its own ladies, cashiers, balance, upgrades, and win-loss record. Use the bar switcher in the sidebar (sorted A-Z) to switch. You'll never be matched against your own bars.

Bar Marketplace

You can list your bar for sale on the Upgrades page (minimum ฿500,000). Buyers pay from their active bar's balance. The buyer inherits everything: the bar name, colour scheme, win/loss record, all paid upgrades (beer fridge, sound system, roster expansions, etc.), the lifetime stats (drinks, earnings, age), AND the staff already on roster (ladies and cashiers). Sabotage history is wiped so old vendettas don't follow the venue.

Inherited staff carry zero refund value (they cost the buyer nothing, so releasing them refunds nothing either). If the same lady appears on both the bought bar and another bar the buyer already owns, the duplicate is dropped on the new bar so she only sits on the buyer's older roster.

Marketplace-bought bars start at ฿0. No ฿200,000 starter float, no goodwill, no welcome pack. You hustle up from zero the way a real handover works in Pattaya.

Sole-bar sales are allowed. If you only own one bar you can still list it (and a buyer can still purchase a sole-bar listing). The seller forfeits the proceeds if they have no other bar to receive the cash, which the listing form warns about up front. If you want to start over, use Profile → Reset Account instead.

Errors now surface. If a buy or list fails (insufficient balance on the source bar, another buyer beat you to it, same-IP block, listing already closed), the marketplace flashes a specific message inline instead of silently redirecting.

Group banner: colour, emoji, motto

Group leaders can customise the group's identity from the Settings tab. A coloured stripe, one emoji and a 40-character motto render together on every group-related surface in the app: the Feed group ribbon, the home page when one of your bars is in the group, the bar's public brochure, and the Pattaya Turtle's group writeups.

• Colour: any of the bar-creation palette colours.
• Emoji: a single emoji that becomes the group's shorthand on the leaderboard and in chat.
• Motto: 40 characters. Same em-dash rule as everywhere else in the app.

Group News (Memos)

A dedicated Group News tab on the Bar Group page (URL ?tab=memos). 280-character posts, replies on every post, image uploads. Posts are scoped to the group (other groups can't see them) and signed in the group's voice (chain-owner announcements) rather than per individual bar, so a heads-up about an inbound raid or a captain-pick suggestion lands as a single team-wide note. Use it to coordinate captain picks, plan a group raid, or trash-talk the rest of the league with people who actually have your back.

Group MVP · the weekly internal vote

Each ISO week (Mon 00:00 to Sun 23:59 Thai) every group runs an internal MVP vote. The candidates are your fellow bar-owners. You get one vote per week. On settlement:

• The winner picks up a permanent "Group MVP · Week N" pill on their bar brochure.
• An auto-post lands in Group News naming the winner with a Turtle one-liner.
• Past winners stay listed on the group page so the streak is visible.

Coordinated Group Raids

Raids are group-vs-group sabotage. A leader proposes a raid against a target group; three or more members must pledge before the raid fires. The targeted group can counter-pledge to halve the effect. There's a 24-hour cooldown between raids on the same pair so groups can't grief.

Effects are bar-aggregate shaves only, never per-staff. Pledges cost slush from each pledging member's bar but pay out into the proposer's group bank on a successful raid.

⏰ Daily rhythm

The game runs on Thai time (UTC+7). A full cycle rolls from 09:00 to 09:00. Knowing which phase you're in tells you what's worth doing right now and what to queue up for later.

The morning cinematic

The first page-load after the 09:00 Thai roll triggers a short morning cinematic: a full-screen card with last night's headline number, the Pattaya Turtle's one-line take on your bar, and (where it landed) a shareable PNG of the headline. Three actions sit underneath:

• Post to feed, drops the headline on the Feed as a quoted card.
• Share image, copies the PNG link or sends it to the system share sheet on mobile.
• Dismiss, marks the cinematic seen for this day so it doesn't replay on a refresh.

Don't want it at all? Open Profile, scroll to the Morning cinematic toggle, switch it off. The headline still lands in your inbox; you just skip the cutscene.

👥 Roster

Your ladies are your team. Every lady earns you revenue every night based on real drink sales. Cashiers keep the register running, without one, your bar earns nothing.

Team Size

You start with 10 lady slots and 2 cashier slots. All ladies are active, everyone plays, everyone earns. Each lady card shows a sparkline of her recent performance history so you can spot trends at a glance.

Hiring & Releasing

• Hire: Open slots show a "+" card on the Ladies page. Click to browse available ladies or cashiers and hire them at their current market value.
• Release: 🖥 Desktop: click "Release" on any lady or cashier card. 📱 Mobile: swipe left on the card (or tap …) to reveal Replace / Bench / Release / Train. You get a refund based on how long they've been on your team.
• You need at least 1 cashier for your bar to earn any money.

Expanding your team

Buy upgrades to hold more ladies and cashiers:

• Bar Stools, ฿100,000 each, +1 lady slot per stool (max 5, or 10 with Double Unit)
• Double Unit, ฿500,000, +10 lady slots, +2 cashier slots & +5 more bar stools
• Golden Barstool, ฿2,500,000, +1 lady slot. Late-game (requires Double Unit + 1M lifetime drinks).

That means your team can grow from 10 up to 31 ladies and up to 4 cashiers. Plus, every bar gets 5 freelancer slots for salary-free revenue on top.

Refund Tiers

Anti-exploit: Refunds are calculated against the actual price you paid, not the live market value, otherwise a rising market would let you fire and rehire for a profit. New bars that haven't yet earned 500 lifetime drinks receive a maximum of 25% refund regardless of hire date.

Performance Levels

Individual drink counts are never revealed. Each lady's nightly drinks are bucketed into one of three levels, we'll only ever show the bucket, never the underlying number.

A no-show day (didn't work at the venue) shows as Off, not a "Low", just no data.

👑 Captain Pick

Each day you can nominate one lady as your Captain. Your captain's drinks count 2× towards your bar's total revenue for that day.

• Pick your captain from the Staff page, look for the gold 👑 Captain tonight panel above the roster
• You can change your captain as many times as you like before the 09:00 Thai rollover
• The captain bonus is applied before venue event modifiers and synergies, so it stacks with everything
• Triple Captain chip turns the 2× into 3× for one night, see Season Chips

Find it: Staff page → Captain picker sits at the top with a rich modal showing each candidate's form, fatigue, loyalty, intro status and 7-day heatmap.

Every "Pick captain" / "Change captain" link in the app, the home countdown, the Compete panel, the Top-10 card, deep-links to /staff#captain and auto-opens the picker modal instead of dumping you on the page with the modal closed. Works on both surfaces.

👑✨ Captain MVP (weekly community vote)

Each ISO week (Mon 00:00 to Sun 23:59 Thai) the league nominates ladies who've been carrying their captains. The community votes. The winner gets a permanent badge on her scouting profile and the bar that last captained her this week gets a small cash thank-you.

How nominees are sealed

• The daily sim flags every lady who hit a HIGH performance bucket while being captained. Threshold: 5 high-bucket captain-nights in the week so far.
• The list is sealed each Monday at the week roll. 8 to 12 nominees typically make the ballot; the panel shows them in a grid with portrait, venue and a public bucket label (strong / huge / monster). Raw drink counts are never exposed.

Voting

• One vote per player per week, locked once cast. The vote button greys out and the panel shows your pick highlighted.
• Server-side 1-second rate limit + DB primary key on (week_str, user_id) stops dupes.
• The leading nominee is shown live (bar chart of votes), so the race is visible all week.

Settlement at week end

• Winner gets a permanent "MVP · Week N" badge rendered on her scouting profile. Awards stack over a career.
• +฿20,000 bar bonus paid to whichever bar last captained her in the winning week, paid via balance_ledger with an idempotent source so the bonus can't double-fire.
• Past winners stay visible in a small spotlight strip at the bottom of the panel.

🏆 Walk of Fame

The league-wide hall of recognised ladies. A lady joins the Walk once she has been picked as captain for 5 or more matchup wins, counted across every bar that has ever captained her, not per-bar.

What you see on the panel

• Each lady's portrait, name, current venue (links to her venue profile), and career captain-win count.
• Sorted by total wins. Newest entries highlighted.
• A short Pattaya Turtle preamble at the top, in keeping with the in-world voice.

What it does and doesn't do

• Pure status, no prize money. The Walk is a public ledger of who has actually delivered when it mattered.
• Cross-bar, wins from any owner count. If a lady has been on three bars' rosters across her career and has 2 + 2 + 1 captain-wins, she lands on the Walk at 5.
• Matchup wins only, not generic captain nights. The Captain MVP award handles weekly high nights; the Walk handles the matchup record.

💸 Release & Replace Refunds

When you Release or Replace a salaried lady or cashier, you get some of her hire price back. Freelancers cost nothing to hire so there's nothing to refund.

Refund curve

A three-step curve based on how long she's been on your roster:

• Released same day you hired her → 100% (full refund, miss-hire protection)
• Released 1 day after hiring → 75%
• Released 2+ days after hiring → 50%

New bars under 500 lifetime drinks are capped at 25% so brand-new accounts can't cycle-hire to farm refunds.

Related anti-exploit gates

• Shared-IP starter: If you register from an IP that already belongs to another user (household/office/shared network), your first bar starts with ฿100,000 instead of ฿500,000. Keeps genuine sharers in the game without handing out fresh ฿500k to every alt account.
• Marketplace listing: a bar must have earned 2,000 lifetime drinks before it can be listed for sale. Stops freshly-expanded or freshly-bought bars being flipped between accounts.
• Same-IP marketplace block: buyers and sellers whose accounts were registered from the same IP can't transact directly through the marketplace.

Chip-active refund

If Wildcard is active this week, every Release or Replace refunds 100% of hire price. (Wage Strike, the renamed Free Hit, no longer touches refunds, it waives lady wages instead.) See Season Chips for details.

Release vs Replace

Mechanically identical for the outgoing staff, same curve, same chip rule. The only difference is Replace hires a new staff member in the same click, deducting the new hire cost. A Replace ledger entry shows:

• A debit with source cashier_swap / girl_swap for the new hire
• A credit with source cashier_swap_refund / girl_swap_refund for the old staff (at the applicable pct)

Fixed April 2026: Replace previously dropped the refund silently, swap_cashier also failed to record hire_price on the new cashier. Both fixed. If you lost money on a Replace while a chip was active, it's been credited back out-of-band.

🪑 The Bench

Don't want to release a lady or cashier but need the roster slot? Send them to the Bench.

• Benched staff don't count towards your roster limit, freeing up a slot for a new hire
• Benched staff don't earn revenue or count towards synergies while benched
• You can unbench at any time if you have a free roster slot
• Bench slots are limited, you start with 5 and can expand to 10 with Beer Fridge upgrades (฿75,000 each)
• Benched staff still show full performance data so you can track how they're doing at their real venue

Bench Swap

You can atomically swap a benched staff member with an active one, no need to unbench then bench separately. Available from the Staff page, with a 7-day performance heatmap in the swap modal.

Hire straight to bench

Empty bench slots on the Staff page (both Table and Grid views) have Hire Lady and Hire Cashier buttons. Use them to stash a standby without displacing whoever's active. Same bench cap rules apply, shared pool across ladies + cashiers.

🟢 Staff presence

Every staff card across the app carries a small presence dot showing whether the lady or cashier is at her venue right now. The dot is binary in colour, only green or red, with one fill variation inside green for predicted-vs-confirmed.

Dot system

Cashiers always use solid green: the monthly schedule upload tells the sim exactly who's working, no prediction needed. Only girls show the hollow ring during the blind-spot.

Confirmed / Predicted / Offline filters

Staff and Scouting both surface a three-way pill row: Confirmed, Predicted, Offline. Tap any combination to narrow the list to staff in that state. The pills are sticky in your browser, your last selection is remembered per page.

• Confirmed: solid green, at venue right now.
• Predicted: hollow green ring, ≥ 60% likely (only meaningful 09:00–13:00 Thai).
• Offline: solid red, not working today.

Pages that carry the trio: Staff, Scouting, My Ladies, Organize, the Captains tab, and the bench-swap / hire / captain-pick modals.

Why the predictor exists

Earnings settle at 09:00 Thai and the first venues don't open until 13:00 Thai, so for four hours every morning there's no live presence data. The arrival predictor uses each girl's last 30 days of attendance to produce a probability that she'll clock in today, and surfaces it as a hollow ring on her dot so you can plan today's roster without flying blind. The estimate is replaced with a real solid-green dot the moment her venue opens and POS confirms she's there.

⚡ Optimize Roster

One-click rebalancing for your roster. Two flavours, depending on which page you click it from.

Single-bar Optimize (Staff page)

The ⚡ Optimize roster button on the Staff page does a within-bar swap: any active staff who didn't work today trade places with bench staff who did. Ladies swap with ladies, cashiers with cashiers. No transfers across bars, no releases, just a clean rotation so tomorrow's report is built from people who actually showed up.

• Skips freelancers (they keep their slot regardless)
• Streaks reset on swapped staff (same as a manual bench swap)
• Idempotent, running it twice in a row is a no-op once the roster is already optimal

Portfolio Optimize (My Ladies / Organize)

The ⚡ Optimize roster button on the My Ladies tab and on the Organize tab is the bigger hammer, it rebalances every bar in your portfolio in priority order:

• Concentrates the best squad left-to-right (or top-to-bottom on My Ladies). The first column / topmost bar gets the highest-synergy lineup, the next bar gets the second-best, and the rightmost / bottom bar collects leftovers.
• Pulls venue-mates across bars, if you have 12 ladies from one venue spread across 3 bars, they all consolidate on whichever bar lands first in the priority order, unlocking the synergy bonus.
• Cashiers follow the ladies, once each bar's dominant lady-venue is set, cashiers from that same venue are preferred for that bar (so a Cat Flaps-heavy bar gets Cat Flaps cashiers).
• Bench offlines, promote onlines, staff who didn't work today drop to bench; bench staff who did get promoted into the active slots they freed up.
• Redistributes present freelancers, freelancers currently at venue are spread across the bars you've picked instead of being stuck at their original bar. Locked freelancers stay pinned to where you locked them.
• Releases offline freelancers, freelancers carry no salary cost, so any who didn't work today are dropped to free up the slot for tonight's claims.
• Streaks reset on every transferred staff member (matches the existing swap behaviour).

Priority order on the Organize tab comes from the column dropdowns left-to-right; on the My Ladies tab it's whatever order the bar sections render top-to-bottom. The whole rebuild is one transaction, if anything fails, nothing changes.

Pick & Fill controls

On Organize the bar columns now show a tick-order priority badge next to each picked bar (1, 2, 3, …) so you can see the order Optimize will use them. Re-tick a bar to move it to the end of the queue.

An 💡 Only use currently working toggle sits at the top of the Pick chooser. When on, Optimize only considers staff whose presence dot is currently green (Confirmed or Predicted) and ignores everyone Offline. Useful when you want tomorrow's rosters built from people who'll actually show up rather than a clever theoretical lineup full of last-week's staff.

🆓 Freelancers

Freelancers are ladies who aren't currently on any team and have no salary. Running low on cash? They're your lifeline, free to hire, and the poorer your bar, the more drinks they deliver.

How it works

• Instant hire. Tap + Hire Freelancer on the Staff page (or from the bar-group page). She joins your roster immediately, no waiver queue, no 09:00 Thai wait, no contested claims.
• Each bar has 5 freelancer slots, separate from your salaried roster.
• Freelancers earn revenue like any other lady, but you keep 100%, no wage at all.
• One per group. If you own multiple bars in the same group, a freelancer can only be on one of them at a time, same exclusivity rule as salaried hires.

Bankroll-tiered drinks boost

Instead of a waiver-wire contest, the advantage for poorer bars is now baked into the simulation: every freelancer's nightly drinks are multiplied by a tier based on your bar's current balance.

The multiplier is checked per day against your live balance, so the boost scales down naturally as you grow. It stacks with Captain and Triple Captain: a captained freelancer on a sub-฿1M bar is 2.0 × 2 = 4× drinks (6× with Triple Captain).

The old waiver-claim system (daily claim cap, 09:00 Thai processor, poorest-bar-first queue, pending claims) was retired once the bankroll multiplier gave poorer bars a fairer edge without scarcity contests.

😴 Fatigue

Fatigue tags reflect how many nights in a row a staff member has worked at their real venue, they're read from the same live POS data that drives your earnings. They are informational only: there is no output penalty or simulation modifier attached to any fatigue state. Tired and Burnt Out staff earn the same as Fresh staff.

Because fatigue is based on real-world attendance, benching a staff member does not reset or reduce their fatigue, if they're still working at the venue IRL the counter keeps climbing. Use the tags as a heads-up about how hard someone is working in the real world, not as a cue to bench them for a performance boost.

📈 Form

"Form" is how a lady is doing right now versus her longer-term baseline. Look for the ▲ Trending up / ▼ Fading indicators in Venue Scouting, top 5 girls whose 7-day average is ±15% off their 30-day average. Each lady card also carries a sparkline of recent nights so you can eyeball form at a glance.

🏷 Tag glossary

Every lady on your roster, in scouting results, or on a captain pick shortlist picks up small colour-coded badges. Each one summarises a specific fact about her so you don't have to dig into her profile. Here's what they all mean.

Fatigue tags

Driven by how many consecutive nights the staff member has worked at their real venue (IRL POS data). No output penalty applies at any level, these are informational only.

Form tags

Driven by her drink-level mix across the last 7 nights.

Roster-state tags

Freelancer odds labels

Shown on the scouting freelancer list, a quick take on how likely she is to put in a good night if you book her.

❤ Staff Loyalty

Every full week a salaried lady stays on your roster grants her +1% drink output, capped at +20% (≈20 weeks to reach the cap).

• Loyalty is per bar, selling, firing, OR transferring her to another bar in your group resets the clock for the destination. Creates a real hold-vs-flip decision and stops you from laundering loyalty across your empire.
• The refund-tier clock is anchored separately to her original hire date, so a transfer doesn't accidentally reset your sell-back percentage.
• Freelancers don't build loyalty (they're one-night gigs).
• Benching keeps loyalty intact, she's still on this bar, just on the bench. The ♥ pip shows on benched rows so you can see what you'd lose by transferring.
• Week Off and Train in House training both gift additional loyalty weeks (+3 and +2 respectively).

Staff Training

Three paid training actions for any salaried lady or cashier via the 🎓 Train button on the roster page. Week Off and Train in House are mutually exclusive, you can't stack both on the same staff member at once.

Find it: Green ❤ +X% badge next to every lady on the overview, roster, bar group, scouting, hire swap modal, and bench rows.

🎓 In-Training filter chip

A dedicated 🎓 Training filter chip sits at the head of the roster filter row on both mobile and desktop. Tap it to narrow the list to staff currently in any of the three training states (Week Off, Train in House, Bar Intro Night active). When nobody on your roster is training the chip greys out so you know there's nothing to filter to.

💰 Team Value

Each lady and cashier has a dynamic market value that recalculates daily at 9am Thai time using three weighted inputs:

• 30-day avg drinks (40%), Raw performance over the last month. The core signal.
• Roster count (35%), How many managers have her on their team. High demand = higher price.
• Consistency (25%), Days worked out of the last 30. Reliable staff are worth more.

Values range from a floor of ฿1,000 to a cap of ฿500,000. Popular, high-performing, reliable ladies get expensive, but you might find undervalued gems. Your team value is the sum of all your staff at current market prices, a useful measure of the asset base you've built up.

• Look for the ↑ and ↓ arrows to spot price trends

🔥 Streaks

When a lady hits "High" performance for 3+ nights in a row, she goes on a hot streak. Streaks earn you bonus revenue on top of your normal earnings.

• Streaks activate at 3 consecutive "High" nights
• Each qualifying girl adds +5% of base drink sales (drinks × ฿160) per streak night beyond the threshold, not gross revenue
• A 3-night streak = +5%, a 5-night streak = +15%, a 7-night streak = +25%
• Multiple girls can streak at the same time, bonuses stack
• Total streak bonus is capped at +50%
• One bad night (Medium or Low) resets that lady's streak to zero

Ladies on streaks show a 🔥 badge with their streak count next to their name on the Ladies and Dashboard pages.

🔍 Scouting

The Scouting page is your analytics hub for evaluating ladies before you hire them. Every lady across all venues has a detailed profile showing:

• 30-Day Performance Chart, A bar chart showing daily performance levels over the last 30 days
• Attendance Heatmap, Calendar-style grid showing which days she worked
• Day-of-Week Patterns, See which days she's most reliable
• Consistency %, How often she shows up for work
• Average Level, Her typical performance tier
• Days Worked, Total days out of the last 30

Filters

• My Bar / Free Agents, Venue, Avg Level, Days Worked, and Sort controls.
• 🖥 Desktop shows them inline as filter pill rows above the list. 📱 Mobile consolidates them into a Filters button that opens a bottom sheet with a live "N results" counter, easier to spin through many filter combos on a small screen.

Venue Scouting Trees

Pay ฿25,000 per venue to unlock deep intel, Football-Manager style. Unlocked venues reveal:

• Best day-of-week across the last 30 days
• ▲ Trending up, top 5 girls whose 7-day avg is ≥15% above their 30-day avg
• ▼ Fading, top 5 girls whose 7-day avg is ≥15% below

Duration: unlocks are permanent, pay once per venue and the intel stays available to your bar for the life of the account.

New on Scouting

• Server-persisted shortlist, survives reloads and follows you across devices.
• Compare Selected modal, side-by-side candidates with best-in-row highlighting. 🖥 Desktop: tick the Compare box on any card; a floating bar appears once you have 2+ selected (up to 3). 📱 Mobile: tap the + on a card to add it (up to 4), then tap Compare in the sticky bottom bar to open the stats matrix.
• Saved filter views, save your favourite filter combos.
• Hottest-venue banner, which venue is trending hottest right now.
• Fit-score sort, a computed "how well does she fit your roster" score, the default sort.
• "vs worst: better than [name]" badges on each lady, for a quick floor comparison with your current roster.
• Confirmed / Predicted / Offline presence pill trio on every list, mirrors the staff page. See Staff presence. The trio acts as a filter: tap a pill to hide rows in that bucket. Defaults to Confirmed + Predicted on (Offline off) at every hour, so the list always starts with people likely to be at venue tonight. An empty-state card appears if all rows are hidden by your pill choices.
• Rostered 📍 badge on staff already placed at one of your other bars (or at this bar). Previously these rows were hidden from hire / freelancer / cashier pickers; now they show with a ROSTERED label and the 📍 chip so you can see where she already is. Not-rostered candidates sort first so new hires bubble up. Rostered rows also opt out of the cert-pill filter so they always remain visible regardless of presence.
• Time-based presence, the dot honours the morning blind-spot (hollow ring 09:00–13:00 Thai for predicted arrivals) instead of going grey.
• Roster-status header above the type tabs, at-a-glance summary of how many candidates match your active filters before you scroll the list.
• Expand all / Collapse all pill on the Views row, flips the per-card 30-day history block on every card on the current page in one click. Choice is remembered per browser. Accounts older than 3 days default to expanded; brand-new accounts get the tighter collapsed view to avoid a wall of charts on day 1.

Staff profile pages

Every lady, freelancer and cashier has her own profile at /scouting/<type>/<venue-slug>_<name-slug>. Any staff name across the app is a link to her profile, roster rows, grid tiles, Synergy Recommendations, feed posts, earnings report, group pages. Hover over a name to see the dotted underline.

Each profile shows:

• Portrait + name + venue + role tag
• Status pills: on your roster / benched / group conflict / can't afford
• Consistency %, days worked, avg & best level, market value
• 30-day heatmap with legend
• Day-of-week pattern grid
• Role-appropriate Hire buttons (Lineup, Bench, Cashier slot, Claim free agent), only shown when the action is valid for your capacity and balance
• A ← Back button that returns to wherever you came from

After a successful hire from a profile, you're sent back to the page you came from so you don't lose your place.

📋 Shortlist

On the Scouting page you can shortlist any lady you're considering hiring. Click the 📋 Shortlist button on any card to save her; click again to remove. Shortlisted staff show up in a dedicated saved list so you can:

• Compare candidates side-by-side via the Compare Selected modal.
• Watch their form over a few days before committing.
• Pounce when their market value dips.

The shortlist is per bar, server-persisted, and survives reloads and device switches. There's no slot limit; it's purely a watchlist with no commitment and no spend. Find it at the top of the Scouting page (filter chips include a Shortlist toggle to show only saved candidates).

Shortlist counts can subtly influence the market-value display on Scouting (popular candidates show as higher-demand) but your specific picks are never shown to other players. If you want a cross-bar bookmark instead of a per-bar one, see Girlfriends.

🔄 Returners

League-wide situational awareness for salaried ladies who are likely to be on shift today. The page is at /staff/returners and lives as a sub-tab off the Staff section.

• 🆕 Just started today, top-of-page section listing ladies who have just appeared in the upstream POS roster within the last 10 minutes. The staff poller checks every 10 minutes for brand-new hires upstream, so a new face at a real venue lands here within ten minutes of her first shift starting. Pure first-mover territory.
• Predicted, ladies the arrival predictor thinks will clock in today based on her 30-day rhythm, but who haven't shown up yet. Card sits with a hollow green dot.
• Confirmed, she's already clocked in at her venue today. Solid green dot.
• Live polling, the page auto-updates the dots from hollow to solid as ladies arrive through the day, no reload needed.
• Hire button, every card has a quick Hire action. If your active roster is full, the lady is hired to the bench so you don't lose her to a rival while you free a slot.
• Venue filter, narrow to one Pattaya venue if you're hunting a specific roster.

Returners is the fastest way to pounce on a great lady the moment she's working again (or starting for the first time), without trawling Scouting. Same privacy rules as everywhere else, no per-lady drink numbers shown.

🧾 Total Cost of Ownership

Market value is the hire price, but what actually matters is the total cost of ownership (TCO) over a week or season: hire cost + wages paid + opportunity cost vs a cheaper alternative, minus refund you'd get on release.

• Ladies take 60% of their drink earnings as wages, high producers keep costing you more the better they do.
• Refunds taper (100% → 75% → 50%) so impulse hires get expensive fast.
• Freelancers have zero TCO beyond the roster slot, they're pure upside.

The Finance page breaks wages out per lady per night so you can audit TCO retrospectively.

🎉 Boosters (formerly Playbook)

The Playbook page has been renamed Boosters and moved to /boosters. The old /events URL still redirects, so existing bookmarks and help links keep working.

The page now splits at the very top into two top-level tabs:

• 🍻 Events, everything that lifts tonight's drink earnings: themed nights, the chip rack, Tonight's Stack, Buy a Round. Default tab.
• 📡 Marketing, the long-game Channels skill tree (see the Channels section below). A separate economy that pays a small daily drink-earnings line you accumulate over weeks, not nights.

Under the Events tab the rest of the booster surface is organised into three sub-tabs:

• Now, everything live tonight: venue events, a themed-night booking panel with cost-benefit numbers, and a chip-scarcity indicator.
• Book, book themed nights up to 3 days in advance instead of only tonight.
• Calendar, the 7-day upcoming venue-event schedule plus your own booked themed nights, at a glance.

Chips have also been moved out of the Matchup page and onto Boosters, so activation lives with the rest of your buff toolkit.

⚡ Tonight's Stack panel

A live breakdown of every bonus active tonight is pinned above the sub-tab nav (so it shows on every Boosters tab). It mirrors build_bar_daily() exactly, the projection never disagrees with the 9am settlement.

The panel rolls up to a single number, the Tonight: +X% chip on the Home page links straight to it so you can audit the projection before bedtime.

🍻 Buy a Round (self-bell)

The Buy a Round button used to live on /compete. It's now on Boosters, sitting just under Tonight's Stack so it's visible on every sub-tab. Same +15% boost, same weekly-per-bar cooldown, same disabled-state with reason text on cooldown. See the Ring the Bell section for cost and rules.

Group boosters (bar group only)

If you own 2+ bars, the Bar Group → Boosters tab adds bulk actions across all your bars in one click:

• Bulk Buy-a-Round, fire Buy a Round across every selected bar at once. Cost is computed and shown per bar before you confirm.
• Themed-night bulk booking matrix, book the same themed night on multiple bars in one form. Useful for syncing a Bar Crawl across the whole group on the same night.
• Bulk chip activation, fire the same chip on every selected bar.
• Birthday Party rule-based bulk, auto-pick a celebrant on every bar according to a rule (e.g. "longest-tenured girl") instead of clicking through each one.

📡 Channels (Marketing)

The Marketing top-level tab on /boosters opens a long-game skill tree built around five real Pattaya media characters arranged in a pentagon around your bar. Wire up to a Channel, invest in the products that Channel sells (a sticky thread, a Saturday feature, a meetup night), and a small daily marketing line shows up on your Earnings breakdown the next morning. It's a separate economy from themed nights and chips, with its own currency (points), its own pacing (weeks not nights), and its own cap that's tuned for the long game.

The cast

Each Channel is a character with a bio, a tagline, a colour, and a tree of 4-5 products in tiers radiating outward from their hub. They're real Pattaya media archetypes turned up to eleven, so read their bios on the Pulse intro (or the Channels page itself) before you spend a single point.

The tree

Your bar sits at the centre of the canvas. Around it, the five Channel hubs ring the bar like a pentagon. You spend points to activate nodes:

• 1 point to connect a Channel (the small node between your bar and that Channel's hub). Required before you can buy any of that Channel's products.
• 2-4 points per product in tiers radiating outward. Tier 1 products cost 2 points, tier 2/3 cost 3, the deepest (tier 4) costs 4. Later tiers require their predecessor in the same Channel to be active first.
• Bridges (2 points) connect two adjacent Channel hubs once you've activated both. Unlocks cross-Channel content.
• Synergy nodes (4 points) sit on bridges and unlock co-features, e.g. Cruise × Vic & Barty Saturday cross-promo. Requires the bridge first.

Each Channel's spindle has its own visual shape so the five Channels feel mechanically distinct: Cruise has a converging stem, Brendan a linear chain with a side branch, Cuckoo a trident off T1, Mack a classic Y, Vic & Barty a linear-then-Y.

Where points come from

Points are awarded automatically. There's no buy-points-with-cash path.

• Starting bundle: +3 points the first time you open the Marketing tab. Enough to open one Channel and pick its first product, or spread across two Channels.
• Bar-age milestones: +1 at Day 7, Day 30, Day 100, Day 365.
• League week: +1 every Sunday since your starting bundle landed. Drip-fed forever.

Everything goes through a ledger, so a respec gives every point back and the totals are auditable on the diary panel.

What activated nodes pay out

Every active product node contributes a small weekly drink-earnings percentage, applied on the day of the week the Channel actually broadcasts. A Saturday Cruisin' Friday flagship fires on Fridays, Brendan's Monday sticky fires on Mondays, a Daily node fires every day. The sim aggregates everything that fires today, scales it by your payout tier, and adds a single 📡 Marketing line to that day's Revenue Breakdown on /finance.

At full spec (every node lit) the design target is about 5% of your weekly drink revenue, capped hard so the line never dominates.

Payout tiers (the underdog ladder)

The marketing economy is tuned to help newer and smaller bars more than mature ones. The boost multiplier and the cap both shift with your bar's age and how many bars your account owns.

The Marketing line for the day is the smallest of three values: (a) scaled percentage × boost × revenue, (b) the % cap × revenue, (c) the absolute ฿/day cap. So a whale single-bar maxed out on every node still tops out around ฿10,000/day, while a Day-3 newbie running the same spec sees four times the boost.

The Marketing Diary

A side panel on /channels shows which nodes fired today, what each one paid into your marketing line, your current tier pill, the daily cap status, and a multi-bar warning banner if you're 6+ bars. The diary reads directly from daily_marketing_modifier(), so what you see is what tomorrow's Finance breakdown will show.

The Pulse intro

The first time you open the Marketing tab you get the Pulse, a ToK-style two-column intro: cinematic slideshow with voiceover on the left, expandable Channel bios on the right. Same flow as the Bar Owner School intro, same 5-second auto-advance, same Replay card that lives on the Boosters page forever after. Voiceover ships for all 5 Channels plus a Pattaya Turtle reporter doing the framing. If the audio fails the slide auto-advances after a short fallback timer.

🎲 Venue Events

Real events happening at real bars are synced daily and affect your revenue. These are actual events, pool competitions, fight nights, live music, ladies nights, and more.

• Venue events give a revenue boost to ladies and cashiers from that specific venue
• Each event has a configurable modifier (e.g. +15%)
• Recurring weekly events are automatically matched
• Multiple events at the same venue on the same night stack multiplicatively
• Only staff from the event's venue get the boost, other venues are unaffected

Check the Events page for today's venue events, the upcoming 7-day schedule, and a 15-day history.

🍺 Mid-evening Events

Between 19:00 and 23:00 Thai, choose-your-own-adventure cards drop into your inbox at irregular intervals. Each card is a quick narrative beat happening at your bar with a 2–3 option choice; the option you pick bakes a small modifier into tomorrow's drink earnings. The underlying drink count, the one that drives the league and matchups, is never changed by these cards.

• Up to 2–3 events per bar per night, randomised per bar with a 35-minute minimum gap.
• 90-minute TTL per card. If you don't decide, the system auto-picks the “soft-pass” default. For most events the default is the free option, but four events default to the paid option because the free alternative would cost you tomorrow's drinks. Those four can debit your balance while you're offline, marked “auto-charge” below.
• Cards live in your Inbox (To-do tab) and on the Home action list. Tap to expand and pick.
• Modifiers stack with the Last-call minigame into the same ±15% nightly cap on tomorrow's drink earnings (never on the drink count itself, the league number is sacred), so a perfect night can lift a hot streak meaningfully without runaway compounding.
• Inbox-only, never push. Web Push is reserved for girlfriend presence.
• Bank ledger row on a paid choice is labelled with the event name (e.g. “⚡ Generator call-out (power flicker)”) so you can trace any debit back to the card.

Full event list

Every event has a free option. The table shows the paid choice and what it buys you. Effects are added to tomorrow's drinks (capped at ±15% stacked with Last Call). Free alternatives are summarised so you can see what you're paying to avoid.

Free-only events

Four events never debit your balance regardless of which option you pick. The trade is always between a small drink-earnings bonus, a small drink-earnings penalty, or a notoriety bump.

• 🚬 Cashier wants a smoke break: cover for her (+1% drink earnings) vs tell her to wait (-1% drink earnings).
• 📸 Rival posted a photo of your bar empty: respond on the feed (+1 notoriety), book a themed night, or ignore.
• 🥊 Drunk tourist starting trouble: kick him out (+1% drink earnings), send the cashier to calm him (60/40 +2% or -3% drink earnings), or pretend not to see (-2% drink earnings).
• 🚌 Songtaew driver wants to park: free water (+2% drink earnings), charge ฿200 (no effect), or send him away (+0.5 notoriety).

Offline-player worst case

The per-night cap is 2–3 events. The four auto-charge events (power flicker, scooter dent, noise complaint, stocktake) total ฿3,800 if every one of them fires on the same night, so a fully-offline player is exposed to roughly ฿1,500–฿3,300 of auto-debits on a bad evening. Open the inbox in the 19:00–23:00 Thai window if you'd rather make the call yourself.

🍻 Last Call Minigame

A 30-second whack-a-mole. Four customer tiles, a glass appears, you tap it before it shrinks to nothing and the customer walks. Open it any time from the 🎮 games picker in the header (same place as Connect 4, Dice, and Pool).

• Score → modifier. Served / missed maps to a small (±2%) modifier on tomorrow's drink earnings. Perfect game bakes in the upside, choke and you eat the downside. The drink count that drives the league is never changed.
• First play of the Thai business day counts (the day runs 09:00 Thai → 09:00 Thai). Replay as many times as you like after that, but extra plays are practice rounds and don't affect tomorrow's drink earnings.
• Stacks with mid-evening events into the same +/- 15% nightly cap on drink earnings.
• Desktop tip: keys 1, 2, 3, 4 serve tiles 1 to 4.

🎟 Themed Nights

Book a themed night for tonight to shape your outcome actively instead of waiting on random weekly events.

One booking per event per bar per day. Multi-night events (Birthday Party, Pool Tournament tail) auto-fan-out into the right future days.

Stack cap, +40% combined

Stacking themed nights is capped: the combined revenue boost across every active themed night cannot exceed +40% on any single night. Ladies' Night (+50%) on its own already hits the ceiling, and Ladies' Night plus Tourist Bus (+40%) is well past it, so a second event on the same day usually adds nothing.

• Normal cap: +40% combined
• Cooldowns: Ladies' Night and Tourist Bus each have a 7-day per-event cooldown, so the +40% peak is a 1–2 nights/week event, not a nightly play. Pool Tournament, Bar Crawl, Birthday Party and Hog Roast remain free to book any night
• Wage Strike active: cap halves to +20%, the trade-off for the zero-wages chip is a smaller themed-night ceiling so wage-free weeks can't compound with a revenue stack
• The earnings breakdown shows ", at cap" next to the Themed Night line when you're at the ceiling, so you know a further booking would waste the cost

Find it: Boosters → Chips tab → "🎟 Book a Themed Night" panel. Bookings are AJAX, you stay on the page and get a toast confirming the booking. Ladies' Night and Tourist Bus bookings also announce in Discord.

Change your mind? A booking queued for a future day can be cancelled. Click the × on the "Pre-booked for …" badge before 9am Thai on that day and you get 80% of the cost refunded, a 20% catering-cancellation fee stays. Once the 9am sim on that day has run, the booking is live and cannot be cancelled.

🃏 Season Chips

Chips are special one-shot powers granted at the start of every season. You have 4 chip types × 2 tranches = 8 chips per bar per season.

Tranche 1 must be used by the end of week 6 or it expires. Tranche 2 unlocks from week 7 and lasts until season end. Don't hoard, unused chips vanish.

🎯 Wage Strike, the pure-profit week

Wage Strike is the rebuilt Free Hit. Old Free Hit was a roster-shuffle chip that was strictly worse than Wildcard, and had a money trap where hires made during the week were deleted at revert without refund. Gone.

New mechanic is dead simple:

1. On activation: the chip flips on for the current season week.
2. Every day of that week: both lady and cashier wages are calculated at zero. Your dividends jump by roughly the wage line you'd normally pay.
3. At the end of the week: nothing to clean up, wages resume automatically on the next day.

Your daily Earnings report will show a “🎯 Wage Strike active” credit line equal to the wages you saved, right next to the usual breakdown.

Side effect, themed-night cap halves

While Wage Strike is active, the themed-night stack cap drops from +40% to +20%. So if you were planning to stack Ladies' Night + Pool Tournament during a Wage Strike week, only the first ~+20% will land. Plan around it: either book modest themed nights (one small event), or save the chip for a week without big bookings.

When to play it

• A big week for your roster. Your ladies are in form, you expect strong drinks, Wage Strike converts more of that into kept revenue.
• Stacked with Triple Captain or a Double Gameweek. Higher gross → more wages would normally come off → more you save.
• You have an expensive roster. High-salary ladies = higher wage waiver = bigger chip value.
• NOT a heavy themed-night week. The +20% cap throttles big stacks, Wage Strike pairs better with weeks where wages are the dominant cost, not weeks where you'd normally book themed nights.

Wildcard vs Wage Strike

• Wildcard = restructure your squad without sell penalties. A roster tool.
• Wage Strike = take home a week of drink revenue with no wage costs. An earnings tool.
• They don't overlap, pair well if you want to use one tranche for restructuring and the other for cashing in.

Find it: Boosters page → "Season Chips" block.

Release/Replace refunds

Wildcard is now the only chip that pushes release/replace refunds to 100%. Wage Strike doesn't affect refunds at all.

🎰 Weekly Game Events

Each matchup week, there's a 70% chance a random game event fires that applies a revenue modifier to targeted bars for the duration of that week.

• Events are revealed at the start of each matchup week
• Current roster of events: Bar Crawl (+25%), Celebrity Visit (+50%), Lucky Night (+30%), Tourist Boom (+15%), Rainy Season (−10%), Police Crackdown (−20%)
• Some target a single bar, others hit every bar in the league
• The active event is shown on your Dashboard and Matchup pages
• Events reset when the new matchup week begins

⚡⚡ Double Gameweeks

Three Double Gameweeks (DGWs) are auto-scheduled per season at evenly spaced weeks. During a DGW, each bar picks one day whose drinks count twice toward their matchup total.

• The pick is permanent for that DGW once locked in, choose wisely.
• Pairs beautifully with Triple Captain and Bench Boost played on the same day.
• Upcoming DGW weeks are listed in the matchup page even when one isn't currently active, so you can plan ahead.

Find it: Matchup page → purple banner with a 7-day picker when a DGW is live.

💦 Seasonal Themes

Real Thai holidays automatically boost every bar's revenue and swap the site banner:

No configuration required, the server picks up the date and applies the multiplier + banner automatically. Revenue breakdowns show "Seasonal" as a dedicated line.

Find it: Overview page banner whenever a window is active.

📣 Feed

The Feed is your cross-bar social timeline. It mixes player chat (top-level posts, replies, reactions, reposts) with auto-event cards the game emits (matchup results, championships, dirty tricks, achievements, prestige resets, marketplace sales, themed-night bookings, buy-rounds, day milestones, Soi Sabotage drama, and more). Click any bar name to jump to its public brochure (every bar has one at /bar/<slug>, shareable anywhere, no login required, showing logo, owner, prestige, facade tier, a privacy-safe lifetime bracket, matchup record, championships, rivalry wins, achievement count, longest-tenured signature staff, beef wins, and trophy cabinet).

Posting

• Composer at the top with quick-chip openers: Brag (pulls your latest achievement), Trash talk, Stat-flex (real numbers from last night), Cheers (random teammate), Challenge a bar (your active rival or top of your location), and @everyone (pings every player active in the last 5 min).
• @-typeahead for bar mentions and #hashtags, both in the composer and in every reply form.
• 📷 Image upload, attach a photo to any post or reply. Pillow validates the file, strips EXIF, resizes to 1280px and saves as WebP. 10 MB raw cap.
• 🎞 GIPHY GIF picker, search and attach an animated GIF. Server downloads, re-encodes as animated WebP, and stores it locally so the post is self-contained.
• Edit your own posts and replies, ✏️ icon next to the timestamp. Edits propagate live to anyone viewing the feed and tag the post (edited).
• Delete your own, 🗑 next to the edit pencil. Cascade-deletes replies, reactions, the on-disk image, and any ghost notifications. Reposts of a deleted post flip to a placeholder.
• 🔁 Repost / quote, click the repost icon on any post or reply and the composer auto-stages a quote chip. Add commentary or post bare. Reposts of reposts resolve to the deepest original. If the original is edited later, every repost updates live.
• ↩ Reply to a reply, flat-thread style. Pre-fills @author so it's clear whom you're addressing.
• Reactions (🔥💀👍😆) on top-level posts AND replies. Reactions sit in their own pill cluster; Reply and Repost are separate labelled actions to the right.

Live, ordered by activity

• Polls every 15 seconds while the tab is visible. New posts and replies fade in; reply count on the parent auto-increments. Polling pauses when the tab is hidden.
• Latest-activity-wins ordering, posting OR receiving a reply bumps a thread to the top, exactly like Facebook or iMessage. No artificial own-post stickiness.
• Hottest sort by default, score = recency × event-type weight + reactions + personal boost (active rival +5, your group +3, same location +2, same vibe +1). Sort dropdown cycles Hottest → Big moves → Newest. A diversity throttle stops more than 1 same-category card running back-to-back.
• Digest cards, when 4 bars all hit Day 100 or 5 bars all bought Double Unit, they collapse into one card ("💰 4 bars bought Double Unit: Frodo, Chang, +2 more"). Click to expand the member list with each bar's specific action and timestamp.
• Pagination, the feed renders 30 posts; Load more at the bottom fetches the next 20 chronologically older.

🥩 Beef of the Day

Hero card on the desktop feed pairs two bars in a daily matchup, picked from the most-reacted active rivalry across the league or, failing that, the closest rank gap among top-5 bars in your location. Vote once per day for whichever bar you back. Voting closes at the next 09:00 Thai roll, the bar with more picks wins, and the winner banks a permanent 🥩 badge on their public brochure. Ties skip the badge.

Sidebar widgets (desktop)

• 🟢 Online now, every player active in the last 5 minutes (one row per account, your own bars hidden). Click a row to drop their @-mention into the composer.
• 📈 Trending bars, top 10 by engagement in the last hour.
• ⚔️ Suggested rivals, who's hit you with tricks, who's just above you on the leaderboard, who shares your vibe nearby. The +Watch button declares a real rivalry (with a confirm prompt) at the standard ฿50,000 fee.
• 📍 {Your Location} Top 10.
• Prompt of the Day for when nothing's happening.

Notifications

• Mention toasts, when someone @-mentions you anywhere in the app a toast slides in (bottom-right on desktop, top banner on mobile). Tap to jump to the post. Auto-fades after 12s. Polls every 30s while the tab is visible.
• Reply and repost toasts fire on the original author with the post's image as a 44px thumbnail.
• Bell deep-linking, every feed/mention/reply/repost notification in the bell dropdown jumps you straight to the post and briefly highlights it.

Spam protection

• Post button locks for 30s after a successful top-level post with a visible countdown. Replies bypass the cooldown so genuine conversations flow.
• Sliding-window rate limits, top-level posts capped at 1/30s + 8/5min + 30/hr; replies at 1/3s + 30/5min. Each violation returns an inline error chip below the textarea.
• Identical-content dedup, the server silently swallows the same body posted twice from one bar inside 60s.
• The composer disables on click so a double-click can't double-post.

🐢 The Pattaya Turtle

The Pattaya Turtle is the game's in-world satirical newspaper, and it's entirely reader-written. Every story on the front page is a Letter to the Editor that another player filed and the community voted up. There's no algorithmic digest, no auto-generated front page, just whatever the league has been talking about that day. It lives under News → The Pattaya Turtle in the sidebar.

The daily edition

Open the Turtle and you get a newspaper-style page: a masthead with today's date, a lead story (the published letter with the most votes today), and a Letters to the Editor leaderboard listing every other published story with its vote count. Tap any headline to open the full article in a newspaper-styled modal, cream paper, double-rule masthead, Playfair Display body type, drop cap on the first paragraph. Archive editions are reachable at /turtle/<yyyy-mm-dd> and shown as a "Past editions" strip at the bottom.

The lead and leaderboard are scoped to the day you're looking at, so an archive edition shows the stories that were live on that day, not today's votes.

Letters to the Editor · submit a take

Anyone can file a story. Tap Submit a take on the Turtle page and the composer asks for a headline (up to 200 characters) and an article body (up to 5,000 characters, roughly a thousand words). Submissions land in a moderation queue; once published, they appear on the public Turtle page and start collecting votes.

• 3 letters per player per day, hard limit. The composer shows your remaining count.
• 100 letters per day league-wide, soft cap to keep the queue readable. Once full, the composer shows "Letters Bag is full, try again tomorrow."
• Community voting, every published letter has a +1 button. One vote per player per letter per day. Whichever letter is leading at any moment is the lead story.
• Manual curation. Steven reads the queue and publishes the ones worth running. No length-or-blank check beyond the basics; the game has no profanity filter and never has had.

Generate a Turtle headline about your bar

Separate from the Letters system, the home page has a "📰 Generate Turtle headline" button. Tap it to have the Turtle write a satirical one-liner about your bar's last 24 hours on demand. Returns the headline plus a shareable PNG with the masthead. One success per bar per Thai day so it stays a treat rather than spam. Two follow-up actions appear on success: post the headline to the feed, or copy the share link. This is a personal share-card, it doesn't go into the public Turtle edition.

💕 Girlfriends

Bookmark ladies (and cashiers) you like and get a ping in your inbox when they're working tonight. A lightweight "favourites" layer, completely independent of your bar roster and wages. Nothing a girlfriend does affects gameplay; it's just a way to keep an eye on people across every venue.

How it works

• Open /girlfriends, every lady and cashier from every venue across Pattaya.
• Click the heart / + Add girlfriend button on any card to save her. Click again to remove.
• Filters: search by name (or venue on mobile), filter by venue, and Saved only to show just the ones you've bookmarked.
• Sorted by consistency (days worked in the last 30, more reliable first), then name.
• Girlfriends are scoped per-bar. Saving Pond on your Catflaps bar doesn't save her on your Brasshouse bar, each bar has its own watchlist and gets its own push notifications. Switch bars in the header to see each list.

Presence notifications

Each time the presence poller runs (every ~15 minutes), any saved girlfriend detected on shift today fires a 💕 FYI notification into your Inbox, "Aom is working tonight at Catflaps". One notification per girlfriend per day per bar, so you don't get spammed. FYI notifications auto-clear when you open the Inbox.

PWA push (opt-in)

Girlfriend detection is the only feature in the game that sends a Web Push / PWA notification. If you've installed the game on your phone and allowed notifications, the first time a saved girlfriend clocks in for the day you'll get a system-level alert (the kind that lights up your lock screen). Tapping it opens your Girlfriends page deep-linked to the right bar. Everything else, captain reminders, matchup updates, chip expiry, stays in-app only so push fatigue never earns us an uninstall.

What it costs

Nothing. No slot limit, no balance deduction, no wage obligation. Shortlisting a hundred girlfriends is fine.

Girlfriends vs Shortlist vs Roster

Privacy: Girlfriends are a personal bookmark list, nobody else can see who you've saved. Unlike the bar-level Shortlist (which can influence market-value displays on Scouting), Girlfriends is purely client-facing and never leaks into any public endpoint.

Find it: Sidebar → 💕 Girlfriends.

🏅 Achievements

Complete missions to earn achievements and bonus cash rewards. There are 50+ achievements across 6 categories. Highlights below, the full list with progress bars is on the Achievements page.

Milestones

• 🌅 First Night, Complete your first day of business
• 📅 One Week In / 🗓 Monthly Regular / 💯 Century Club, Survive 7, 30, 100 days (+฿100k / ฿250k / ฿1M)
• 🏘 Empire Builder / 💎 Tycoon / 🎩 Monopoly, Own 3 / 5 / 10 bars in a group (+฿100k / ฿500k / ฿2M)
• 🏰 Mogul / 🛕 Magnate / 👑 Kingpin, Own 15 / 20 / 30 bars in a group (+฿4M / ฿8M / ฿15M). The empire ladder past 10 for the truly committed.
• 👑 Legacy Begins / 🏆 Veteran / 🎖 Living Legend, Reach prestige level 1 / 3 / 5
• 🗳️ Past Mayor, win the Mayor of Soi Sabotage election, permanent badge on the Profile page.

Earnings

• 💰 Millionaire / 💎 Diamond Hands / 🏦 Bar Tycoon, Reach ฿1M / ฿5M / ฿10M balance
• 🪑 Home Improvement, Buy your first upgrade
• 🏗 Going Big, Expand to a double unit
• 🍺 Cheers!, Redeem your first beer card
• 🤝 Stronger Together, Earn your first group-synergy bonus (+฿10k)

Roster

• 🔥 Heating Up / On Fire / 🌋 Unstoppable, 3 / 7 / 14-night hot streak (+฿5k / ฿25k / ฿100k)
• 👥 Full House, Fill your roster to max capacity (+฿10k)
• ✨ Synergy Seeker / ⚡ Double Synergy, 1 or 2 active venue synergies
• 🌍 Talent Scout, Draft from 5+ different venues
• ❤ Loyal Hire / Devoted, Reach +10% / +20% loyalty on any lady (+฿10k / ฿50k)
• 🏝 Take a Break / 🔗 Cross-Venue Vibes, First Week Off or Bar Intro training
• 🔎 Intel Gathered / 🗺 Cartographer / 🧭 Know Your Town, Unlock scouting intel on 1 / 5 / every venue

Combat

• 🏆 First Victory / ⭐ Hat Trick / 👑 Season Champion, Win 1 / 3-in-a-row matchups, plus a full season title
• ⚔ Group Victory, Win your first group matchup (+฿25k)
• 🃏 Playing Dirty, Use your first dirty trick
• Chip achievements, Play your first chip, a Wildcard, a Wage Strike, a Triple Captain, a Bench Boost
• 🎭 Notorious, Hit 4+ notoriety (police start raiding)
• ⚖ Served Cold, Redeem your first revenge credit
• 🎯 Pick Your Enemy / 🔥 Rival Sweep, Declare a rivalry, then win 3 matchups vs the same rival
• 🤖 First Blood, Beat the Rookie AI on your first matchup

Social

• 💃 Ladies' Night / 🚌 Bus Me There, Book a themed night (+฿5k each)
• 🔴 Four in a Row / 🎲 Hustler, Win your first Connect 4, then 5 lifetime wins
• 🎱 Pool Shark, Win your first pool game

Seasonal

• 💦 Songkran Survivor, Trade through a full Songkran holiday (13–16 April, +฿15k)

Story arcs (the personality achievements)

A second tier of achievements rewards specific story-ish moments the league throws at you. Most are one-shot, all post a flavour line to the Pattaya Turtle when you unlock them:

• 💢 Rude Awakening, beat a bar whose name made the Pattaya Turtle Hall of Fame ballot.
• 👮 Cleared by the Boys in Brown, survive a Police trick at notoriety 5+.
• 🐢 In the Paper, get a Letter to the Editor that mentions you by name published in the Turtle.
• 👥 Squad Goals, hit a Full House synergy on two bars in the same group, same week.
• 👑 King of the Hill, hold #1 on the leaderboard for 7 consecutive days.
• 🍹 Drinks for Democracy, be sitting mayor when your own policy is in effect.
• 🎭 Counter Puncher, halve an incoming group raid by counter-pledging in time.
• 🎉 Cabinet Reshuffle, fill every cabinet slot with staff from the same venue.
• 🏝️ Hometown Hero, stack 7+ ladies from a single venue (Full House) for 14 consecutive days.
• 🐍 Crossed Streams, captain three different ladies to a HIGH bucket in one week.
• 🍻 Bar of the Year nominee, finish top 3 in any Bar of the Year category.
• 🏆 Hall of Bars, win any Bar of the Year category.
• 🦙 Hippo Owner, buy the Rideable Moo Deng.

Check the Achievements page to track your progress. Checked automatically during daily processing.

New Achievements UX

• Next Up, the 3 achievements closest to unlocking, surfaced at the top.
• Category tabs and rarity % on every card (how many players have it).
• Player-favourite, pin up to 3 achievements to show on your public brochure.
• Progress bars on every measurable locked achievement.
• Gamer Score rollup, an aggregate score across all your earned achievements.

✨ Venue Synergies

Stack ladies and cashiers from the same venue to unlock synergy bonuses. These give a percentage boost to your total revenue. Freelancers do not count towards synergies.

Higher tiers replace lower ones, if you have 5 from one venue, you get +6% (not +3%). But you can stack synergies across different venues.

🔗 Bar Intro Night, the soft-bonus path

For ladies whose home venue isn't the one you're trying to stack, buy a 7-day Bar Intro Night at ฿20,000 to add +1 staff count toward an introduced venue's synergy threshold (in addition to their home venue).

• One intro per (your bar, target venue), intro-ing five ladies to the same venue still only adds +1 to that venue's count. The buff is a near-miss nudge (e.g. 6 → 7 unlocks Full House), not a way to fabricate a synergy from thin air.
• The Staff page blocks buying a duplicate intro to a venue that already has one active on this bar, so you don't waste ฿20k.

Near-misses panel

The Team Synergy panel (mobile + desktop) shows a Near misses row listing every venue with 1–2 staff and how many more you'd need to unlock the next tier (e.g. Club Fate · 2 · +1 for Trio). Makes the path to a bonus visible instead of leaving you to count rosters by eye. Cashiers count toward synergy; burnt-out staff are included; freelancers are not.

🔔 Ring the Bell

See a bar on the leaderboard having a great day? Give them a shout-out by ringing their bell.

• Tap the 🔔 icon next to any bar on the Leaderboard
• Ringing a bar's bell gives them a +15% boost on base drink sales (drinks × ฿160) for the day. Like every percentage modifier, computed off base, doesn't compound on top of themed nights / synergies.

Restrictions (the full list):

• Requires at least 500 lifetime drinks on your bar to unlock, newbies can't ring yet
• You can ring one bell per day (Thai business day, resets 9am Bangkok time), choose wisely
• The daily limit is per user, not per bar, if you own multiple bars, they share the one-per-day quota
• You can't ring your own bar's bell
• You can't ring a bar in your own group (but cross-group is fine, no “bigger bar” or mutual-bell rule)
• No size or rank restriction, small bars can ring the biggest bars on the board, and vice versa

Buy a Round (self-bell)

Need a boost and nobody's ringing? Buy a Round lets you ring your own bell by paying for the drinks yourself. Same +15%-of-base-drink-sales boost as a normal bell.

• Cost: 8% of last night's gross revenue, with a ฿5,000 floor for quiet nights / new bars. Big-earning bars pay more for the same boost.
• Cooldown: one self-bell per bar per week (7 days).
• Counts as your daily bell, you can't self-bell and also ring someone else's bar the same day.

Find it: Boosters → sits right under Tonight's Stack so it's visible on every Boosters sub-tab. (It used to live on /compete; that was moved when chips and self-bell were consolidated onto Boosters.)

🧾 Revenue Breakdown

On the Overview and Finance pages, your nightly revenue is broken down into each modifier line so you can see exactly where the money came from, and which mechanics are actually moving your number:

• Base drinks × ฿160
• Captain 2× multiplier (or 3× with Triple Captain)
• Venue events (stacked multiplicatively)
• Synergies per venue
• Seasonal theme boost
• Themed Nights (Ladies' Night, Tourist Bus, Pool Tournament, Bar Crawl, Birthday Party, Hog Roast is cosmetic and adds no revenue mult)
• Weekly event modifier
• Prestige bonus (+2% per retired bar, lifetime, capped at +10%)
• Loyalty per-lady uplift (capped +20%)
• Streaks as a bonus on base drink sales (drinks × ฿160), capped at +50%
• Dirty trick debuffs if you got hit (Police: -30% of drink sales, Bad Review: rate ฿160 → ฿120)
• Bell +15% of base drink sales if someone rang you
• Minus lady wages, cashier wages, any notoriety raid penalty, and the bankroll tax if your balance is above ฿20M

If a number looks off, this is the first place to check.

📢 Discord & Alerts

Big moments in Pattaya get broadcast to the community Discord channel so rivals can react in real time. Alerts are intentionally one-line, enough to gloat or retaliate, never enough to leak private balances or per-lady drink counts.

Alerts that fire today

What deliberately stays silent

• Hiring / firing staff, too frequent, too boring.
• Feed posts, reactions, replies, that's already a social space, no need to echo into Discord.
• Bench swaps, training, notification acks, settings, music style changes.
• Scheduled tricks (they announce when they fire, not when queued).
• Cosmetic upgrades (pool table, dice cup, sound system).

Privacy: No bar's balance, daily/weekly earnings, or per-lady drink counts are ever broadcast. The digest uses buckets and ranks rather than raw ฿ totals for non-winning bars.

❔ Help Tooltips

The small ? icons scattered across dense panels used to open a new browser tab for every click. Now they pop an inline tooltip bubble right next to the control, explaining what the thing does in two sentences.

Each tooltip includes a "Learn more →" link that deep-links to the relevant section of this docs page, so a single click gets you the explanation and a second click gets you the full context without losing your place.

Bonus: there's now a themed 404 page with CTAs back into the main app, in case you do manage to break a link.

❓ Questions?

Stuck on something that isn't covered here, or just want to shout about a huge matchup win? Drop it in the Feed, every bar owner can see and react. The devs read it too.

Quick FAQ

When do days process? Yesterday's data is processed automatically at 9am Thai time (UTC+7) every day. Revenue, wages, matchup scores, streaks, events, synergies, and market values all update at that time. Freelancer hires are instant and take effect the next processed day.

What happens if I run out of money? Your bar keeps running but you won't be able to hire new ladies, buy upgrades, or create new bars. Pick up freelancers (they're free!) and wait for a good event night.

Can I start over? Yes. Go to your Profile page and use the Reset Account button at the bottom. You'll need to type "delete" to confirm.

What's the Beer Card? It's a real reward. Earn ฿5,000,000 in-game, buy the Beer Card upgrade, and redeem it for an actual beer card at any Marine Entertainment venue. One per account, like every real-world prize.

❓ FAQ

Can I sell my bar?

Yes, list it on the Marketplace from the Upgrades page (minimum ฿500,000 listing price; bar must have earned 2,000+ lifetime drinks). Buyers pay from their active bar's balance and inherit your lifetime stats; only the roster wipes. Try it →

What happens when I retire?

Retiring deletes the bar (balance, roster, chips, matchup history all gone) and gives every other bar you own (and any future bar) a +2% drink earnings bonus. The bonus is lifetime, it stays on your account permanently and never decays. Stack up to prestige level 5 (max +10%, locked in for good). Raw drink counts and wages are unchanged, the bonus shows up as a separate Prestige line on the Earnings breakdown. See the Prestige section for full criteria and details.

How do chips reset?

Season chips are split into two tranches. Tranche 1 must be used by the end of its window or they expire; Tranche 2 unlocks later in the season. At the end of every season all chips reset. See Season Chips. Try it →

Why did my earnings drop?

The Revenue Breakdown on the Finance page shows every modifier stacked, a dirty-trick debuff, a missed captain pick, or a bad synergy mix are the most common culprits. Try it →

When do days process?

Yesterday's data processes automatically at 9am Thai time (UTC+7). Revenue, wages, matchup scores, streaks, events, synergies, and market values all update then. Freelancer hires are instant, the next processed day counts their drinks.

What's the Beer Card?

A real-world reward. Earn ฿5,000,000 in-game, buy the Beer Card upgrade on the Upgrades page, and redeem it at any Marine Entertainment venue. One per account, the cap is shared across every bar you own.

Can I start over?

Yes. Go to Profile and hit Reset Account, you'll need to type "delete" to confirm.

How do I join or leave a Bar Group?

Groups auto-form when you own 2+ bars. From the Bar Group page, use the Settings tab to edit, invite or disband. Try it →

Why am I always on the wrong bar after I log in?

You shouldn't be, anymore. Logging back in lands you on the last bar you were managing, not whichever bar happens to have the lowest id. The active-bar choice is persisted whenever you switch via the dropdown, the marketplace, the group page, or any URL with ?bar=<slug>.

What's the difference between a Shortlist and a Girlfriend?

Shortlist is per-bar, lives on Scouting, and is for ladies you're considering hiring. Girlfriends is per-bar but cross-venue, lives on /girlfriends, and pings your inbox (or push, if installed) when a saved lady clocks in. They serve different jobs.